Seconded, KY in any such chaos would be a thorn in everyone's side. People would retreat to the mountains and caves with untold tons of weapons and from there tell everyone considered outsiders to piss all the way off. It would be like a logistics blackhole. Everyone would learn to just go around. I feel like this would be the case for all of Appalachia. It definitely wouldn't look like the state border.
I deliberately stopped reading at your prompt, to avoid spoilers. But other reviews have criticized the regional split as being unrealistic. Whatever. It's a movie. And if you recommend, then that counts for me. Thanks.
I have no idea where they got the regional split, but that's not really the point, or maybe it is. Maybe Garland didn't want to give any real political group any kind of endorsement, so he came up with this divide that makes absolutely no sense in our current politics.
Evidently liberals think this movie should have been a giant campaign video. For the Dems. Can't wait to see it, thanks for the review!!! Also I do like Nick Offerman in anything. Plemons is married to Kirsten Dunst, and, IMO, we don't see enough of them in movies these days.
Makes sense to see this one, OB. I'd imagine that with another civil war, the split would be along class lines and depending on the propaganda, factions who are sick of the America they ended up with, or sick for the one that once was.
I remember reading an early review from a predictable news source and a review of it where the critic couldn't "find if the movie had any point".... Right here, buddy... It would hit you between the eyes ..."
That's a great price for a comfort easy chair show with eats and a brew. They need that in the Eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh.
Thanks for the movie review. Sounds interesting. I'll be looking for it on my library's DVD shelves, as I can't afford first run movies even with the senior discount. (And I need the closed captioning.)
Hey, I empathize, man. There must have been a 15 year stretch where paying for a movie was definitely a luxury I could not afford. Of course, back then, theaters never served beer, either. We used to smuggle in a flask of bourbon and order a Coke to pour it in.
If nothing else, this is a great antiwar film to add to any such DVD collection if and when it becomes affordable.
LOL!! Yeah, when I was in college we used to smuggle in the rum bottle or beer cans in our coat pockets. There were some advantages to long, cold Ohio winters back in the early 1980s!
This does sound like something I could put beside "Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals" in our DVD collection...
Curious, do you see a civil war breaking down on geographical lines like this, or more urban vs rural lines? I tend to lean towards the latter, with it then edging into race war chaos for those stuck in urban centers.
There’s no way Kentucky is a loyalist state. I know that’s not your perspective, necessarily.
Yeah, I don't get the map at all. Then again, this is fiction.
Seconded, KY in any such chaos would be a thorn in everyone's side. People would retreat to the mountains and caves with untold tons of weapons and from there tell everyone considered outsiders to piss all the way off. It would be like a logistics blackhole. Everyone would learn to just go around. I feel like this would be the case for all of Appalachia. It definitely wouldn't look like the state border.
I deliberately stopped reading at your prompt, to avoid spoilers. But other reviews have criticized the regional split as being unrealistic. Whatever. It's a movie. And if you recommend, then that counts for me. Thanks.
I have no idea where they got the regional split, but that's not really the point, or maybe it is. Maybe Garland didn't want to give any real political group any kind of endorsement, so he came up with this divide that makes absolutely no sense in our current politics.
Evidently liberals think this movie should have been a giant campaign video. For the Dems. Can't wait to see it, thanks for the review!!! Also I do like Nick Offerman in anything. Plemons is married to Kirsten Dunst, and, IMO, we don't see enough of them in movies these days.
Plemons had a great role in Killers of the Flower Moon.
Very good review. Thanks for sharing. It sounds interesting.
Makes sense to see this one, OB. I'd imagine that with another civil war, the split would be along class lines and depending on the propaganda, factions who are sick of the America they ended up with, or sick for the one that once was.
I remember reading an early review from a predictable news source and a review of it where the critic couldn't "find if the movie had any point".... Right here, buddy... It would hit you between the eyes ..."
That's a great price for a comfort easy chair show with eats and a brew. They need that in the Eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh.
Thanks for the movie review. Sounds interesting. I'll be looking for it on my library's DVD shelves, as I can't afford first run movies even with the senior discount. (And I need the closed captioning.)
Hey, I empathize, man. There must have been a 15 year stretch where paying for a movie was definitely a luxury I could not afford. Of course, back then, theaters never served beer, either. We used to smuggle in a flask of bourbon and order a Coke to pour it in.
If nothing else, this is a great antiwar film to add to any such DVD collection if and when it becomes affordable.
LOL!! Yeah, when I was in college we used to smuggle in the rum bottle or beer cans in our coat pockets. There were some advantages to long, cold Ohio winters back in the early 1980s!
This does sound like something I could put beside "Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals" in our DVD collection...
Curious, do you see a civil war breaking down on geographical lines like this, or more urban vs rural lines? I tend to lean towards the latter, with it then edging into race war chaos for those stuck in urban centers.